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词汇 pecked
释义 pecked
past simple and past participle ofpeck
peck
verb
uk /pek/ us /pek/
[ I or T ]
When a bird pecks, it bites, hits, or picks up something small with its beak: 啄
The birds learn to peck holes in the milk bottle tops.鸟儿们学习在牛奶瓶的盖上啄洞。
Geese were pecking around for food.鹅在地上四处啄食。
peck atChickens pecked at the seeds which covered the ground.小鸡们啄食着撒在地上的种子。
[ T ]
to give someone a quick kiss, especially on the side of the face: 轻而快的吻,匆匆一吻
peck someone on the cheekHe pecked his aunt on the cheek.他匆匆吻了一下姨妈的脸颊。
[ I or T ]
to type on a keyboard, pressing the keys using only one or two fingers, especially because you are not very good at typing:
They hunch over keyboards, pecking individual lines of code in strange programming languages.
peck atI'm tired of watching my 12-year-old daughter pecking at the keyboard with one finger.
hunt and peckIt has a small qwerty keyboard which touch-typists with tiny hands can use - I hunt and peck .
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Phrasal verb


peck at something

Examples of pecked


pecked

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Drinking milk from a bottle where the top had been pecked by a bird was not statistically significant but there were very few subjects exposed.
In that research, pigeons pecked response keys in order to obtain food.
The humansized domestic hen clowns hopped and pecked the audience as they entered the tent.
If the pigeon pecked the center key, the shutter closed and the two side keys were illuminated.
Chicks trained on the bitter bead are matched with controls that have pecked at either a water-coated or dry bead, and which peck the dry bead on test.
Nevertheless, pecked and released larvae always died.
The chicken pecked corn with its beak.
Small shaped and fired lumps of clay with pecked and impressed decoration in our hands moved from one category to another, never truly belonging (figure 8).
It is a fact of the law of nature that any seagull in any way imperfect is pecked to death by those which are perfect.
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The hens get miserable and some get their bottoms pecked.
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One of my plantings was quite badly damaged by capercaillie where they had pecked off the leaders from the ground.
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Apparently, they have been left for four days, and carrion seekers have pecked at the bodies and carried the disease heaven knows where.
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Then we shall have a situation in which animals have to be buried, or in some parts of the country they will be left to be pecked by birds.
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Among those fish were kelts and there were snigger marks on many of them, and some even had marks of having been gnawed by rats and pecked by gulls.
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